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Forward Guidance and Household Expectations

Coibion, Olivier - 2020

of inflation, mortgage rates, and unemployment to the effects of communication about future inflation in a randomized …

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Do Reemployment Programs for the Unemployed Work for Youth? Evidence from the Great Recession in the United States

Michaelides, Marios - 2020

We present experimental evidence on the effects of four U.S. reemployment programs for youth Unemployment Insurance (UI …

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Zooming the Ins and Outs of the U.S. Unemployment with a Wavelet Lens

Portugal, Pedro - 2018

To better understand unemployment dynamics it is key to assess the role played by job creation and job destruction …. Although the U.S. case has been studied extensively, the importance of job finding and employment exit rates to unemployment … finding and job separation rates for the U.S. unemployment rate dynamics. Drawing on this approach, we are able to reconcile …

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Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s

Acemoglu, Daron - 2015

Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that...

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Job Loss in the Great Recession and its Aftermath : U.S. Evidence from the Displaced Workers Survey

Farber, Henry S. - 2015

The Great Recession from December 2007 to June 2009 is associated with a dramatic weakening of the labor market from which, by some measures, it has not completely recovered. I use data from the Displaced Workers Survey (DWS) from 1984-2014 to investigate the incidence and consequences of job...

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Hours Worked in Europe and the US : New Data, New Answers

Bick, Alexander - 2016

We use national labor force surveys from 1983 through 2011 to construct hours worked per person on the aggregate level and for different demographic groups for 18 European countries and the US. We find that Europeans work 19% fewer hours than US citizens. Differences in weeks worked and in the...

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Do Extended Unemployment Benefits Lengthen Unemployment Spells? Evidence from Recent Cycles in the U.S. Labor Market

Farber, Henry S. - 2013

In response to the Great Recession and sustained labor market downturn, the availability of unemployment insurance (UI … extensions across states to estimate the overall impact of these extensions on unemployment duration, comparing the experience … extensions on unemployment transitions and duration. We rely on individual variation in benefit availability based on the …

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Do Immigrants Work in Worse Jobs than U.S. Natives? Evidence from California

Zavodny, Madeline - 2014

In the debate over immigration reform, it is frequently asserted that immigrants take jobs that U.S. natives do not want. Using data from the 2000 Census merged with O*NET data on occupation characteristics, I show that the jobs held by immigrants are more physically arduous than the jobs held...

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Recent Extensions of U.S. Unemployment Benefits : Search Responses in Alternative Labor Market States

Valletta, Robert G. - 2014

In response to the 2007-09 “Great Recession,” the maximum duration of U.S. unemployment benefits was increased from the … microdata from the Current Population Survey. I find that a 10-week extension of UI benefits raises unemployment duration by …

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The Impact of Education on Unemployment Incidence and Re-Employment Success : Evidence from the U.S. Labour Market

Riddell, W. Craig - 2011

This study investigates the causal effects of education on individuals' transitions between employment and unemployment … 16 years of schooling. Evidence on the impact of formal schooling on unemployment incidence is mixed …

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